Change Project

This year, we have a year long project called the change project.  I guess it technically started in the summer when we had to write a proposition for what we wanted to do for it.

Basically, this project requires us to find a way to instill change in our community.  I originally was hoping to do something relating to healthy eating and nutrition but my group (if you look on the right side of my blog there is something that says "Change Project."  If you click on one of those tabs you can go to my group members' blogs) and I instead decided to try to do something relating to books and a library.

We decided that since we obviously are not able to build a library we should expand one.  We contacted Children's Hospital in DC and they agreed to work with us.  Them agreeing was really exciting because it was the first major step in our project that was completed.

The hospital can only take new books though, so instead of doing a used books drive as well as purchasing new books we had to find a way to raise enough money to purchase enough books to actually make a difference in their library.

We had a bake sale at an event at our school one night, and although there was another group there having a bake sale as well we still managed to make a ton of money.  After asking for donations we got even more.

Then, we got really lucky when we contacted Scholastic Books, a book program that we have become familiar with throughout our time in school.  Anyways, with Scholastic we found a really amazing deal where we can get 50 books for $50.  With the amount of money we have raised there is going to be a huge difference in the hospital's library.

So the reason I finally thought to do a post on our Change Project is because we plan on ordering the books sometime this week.  Hopefully it all works out! 

 

This is just a picture of a library in general, not the one we are donating to.

Image Source:  Children's Section